What is it about?
The study examines the role played by the “guerrilla counter-state,” which the MPLA and FRELIMO movements constructed out of their national party organizations, to guide the cultural and political process of rapid social change.
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Why is it important?
Despite the checkered post-revolutionary history of these two African revolutions over the past four decades, one can point to the MPLA's and FRELIMO's divergent experiences with administering their "counter-state" institutions during the struggle for national liberation in Angola and Mozambique as decisive in accounting for their respective successes and failures at institutionalizing social revolution after independence.
Perspectives
This article is an invitation to look beyond the subsequent civil wars, foreign incursions, and party in-fighting that followed independence, and examine how the will and capacity to govern was created effectively by two African national liberation movements.
Timothy W Luke
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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This page is a summary of: Angola and Mozambique: Institutionalizing Social Revolution in Africa, The Review of Politics, July 1982, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0034670500046647.
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